Peter Wendel
Peter Wendel is a Swedish visual artist based in Gothenburg. He holds an MFA in Photography from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and works at the intersection of photography, installation, and psychoanalytic theory. His practice combines digital and analogue processes in an exploration of how the unconscious can be made visible through the image.
In his recent installations, he lets body, water, and light interact as generative interfaces where the viewer becomes an active part of the work.
Wendel’s work moves between photography, philosophy, and psychology – between light and shadow, surface and depth. He explores how the image can become a threshold to the unconscious, where memory and layers of time overlap. Photography, for him, is not a way to depict the world as it appears, but to sense what lies beneath its surface. His process seeks not definitive answers, but spaces where questions are allowed to remain.Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions2025 Kulturföreningen Lyktan, Kortedala, Sweden
2023 Chapelle Saint-Jean, La Garde Freinet, France
2023 Gallery NP33, Norrköping, Sweden
2023 Gallery Pause, Bergen Norway
2022 Secret Door, Gothenburg, Sweden
2021 CO Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 Exhausting the body, Ritual, Performance & art, Berlin, Germany
2019 Gallery NP33, Norrköping, Sweden
2019 Restaurant Faye Emmy, Gothenburg, Sweden
2019 Secret Door, Gothenburg, Sweden
2017 Restaurang Lipp, Göteborg, SwedenGroup Exhibitions2025 Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2025 Secret Door Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
2024 Gallery Format, Malmö, Sweden
2024 By The Sea, Gothenburg, Sweden
2024 Secret Door, Gothenburg, Sweden
2024 Monitor, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 Centrum för fotografi, salong, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 Chapelle Saint-Jean, La Garde Freinet, France
2021 Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury Vermont USA
2021 Praxis Photo Center Minneapolis Minnesota USA
2021 Louisville Photo Biennial, USA
2021 London Art Biennale, England
2021 Venice International Art Fair, Italy
2020 The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland
2020 Secret Door, Gothenburg, Sweden
2019 Secret Door, Gothenburg, Sweden
2019 Centrum för fotografi, salong, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Arbetets Museum, Dokumentärsalong, Norrköping, Sweden
2019 316 kubik, Hudiksvall, Sweden
2019 Vårsalong, Järvsö, Sweden
2018 Monitor, Gothenburg, Sweden
2017 Lerums Bibliotek, SwedenEducations
2025 HDK-Valand Master of Fine Arts Programme in Photography
2023 The Int. Photo Lab Africa Gamleby Folkhögskola
2023 Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. Photography and moving images as a critical practice.
2022 Novia Finland Bachelor of Arts and Culture Photography,
2021 The Atelier Smedsby
2019-2021 Masterclass, Anna Clarén, Michael Ackerman, Anders Petersen, Moises Saman
2021 project year(2), Forsa Folkhögskola
2021 Biskops Arnö, Gum Print
2017-2019 Independent Study Programme HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and DesignArtist Talk
2025 Artist Talk Nordiska folkhögskolan, Kungälv Sweden
2025 Artist Talk, Kulturföreningen Lyktan, Göteborg, Sweden
2025 Artist Talk Hasselblad Centers Vänner, Göteborg, Sweden
2024 Artist Talk Planket, Göteborg, Sweden
2024 Artist Talk Nordiska folkhögskolan, Kungälv Sweden
2024 Artist Talk Spegla, Norrköping Sweden
2024 Artis Talk Gallery Format, Malmö, Sweden
2024 Artist Talk och boksignering Gothenburg Museum of Art
2023 Artist Talk Nordiska folkhögskolan, Kungälv SwedenBooks/Published
2025 Darkroom: Where time sculptures silence, ugotphotography.se
2025 Staying in the Questions, gupea.ub.gu.se
2024 The Suit is Sewn in the Silence, published by the Journal photobooks
2021 Missing Pages, published by the Journal photobooks
2021 Another Part of Berlin, self-published
2020 Behind the Sofa, published by the Journal photobooksMentions
2025 Ted Forbes, youtube, USA
2024 Lars Dareberg, yoututbe, Sweden
2024 Swedish Association of Professional Photographers, Sweden
2024 Spanaren.se, Sweden
2023 Östgöta Correspondenten, Sweden
2024 L'intervalle.blog, France
2021 L'intervalle.blog, France
2020 L'intervalle.blog, France
2020 Issue 44 of the magazine La Couleur des Jours, Switzerland.
2021 CO Gallery Magazine 2021, Germany
2019 Kultursidan.nu 2019, Sweden
2019- Anders Petersen, Johan Bergmark, Stefan BremerGrants
2022 Swedish Literature Exchange from Swedish Arts Council
2020 Swedish Literature Exchange from Swedish Arts CouncilResidency and others
2020-2026 Chairman of the Board, Hasselblad Centers Vänner
2021 AiR at CO Gallery Berlin
2023- Member of ASSAGE, Artist collective I France,